Ann: Investor Day Presentations, page-36

This is from 'The Oz' online on Monday 5 February 2024:

(I like The Nationals but unless I'm misreading, Mr Littleproud is either unaware or his statements are clumsy as BWS and Dan's outlets are part of EDV, with WOW only retaining an historic c. nine per cent interest in EDV. BWS and Dan's are all EDV-owned, not franchised IIRC):

"...Nationals Leader David Littleproud has called on the government to bring in "big stick legislation on the supermarkets to put them in their place," including divestiture powers.

"Straight away that would have an effect on making sure there's downward pressure on prices at the checkout and fair prices at the farm gate," Mr Littleproud said on Sky News.

"When you've got three of the big supermarkets controlling over 74pc of the grocery market, they are the market, they dictate prices at the farm gate, right through to the checkout, and that's putting pressure on suppliers as well.

"But they're taking the cream and unfortunately when prices go down at the farm gate, that's not translating at the checkout and when you've got that much power, governments should intervene and we should say that there's divestiture powers where they may lose their Dan Murphy's franchises or their BWS franchises and we'd really make sure that this concentration of power is addressed in an equitable way so that there's transparency from the farm gate to your plate on pricing..."